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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Henrik Ibsen

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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